Buenos Aires: Proa, 1925. First appearance of Borges’ essay “El Fausto criollo”, collected the following year in El Tamaño de Mi Esperanza (1926). This issue also includes two poems by Garcia Lorca, “Romance de la luna de los gitanos” and “Soneto”. Read More about El fausto criollo [in:] Proa 2:11, Junio 1925

Buenos Aires: Ediciones de Nosotros, 1926. First edition. Compendium of twentieth century Argentinian poets including Leopoldo Lugones, Enrique Banchs, Evaristo Carriego, Fernández Moreno, Martínez Estrada, A. Storni, Jorge Luis Borges, Córdova Iturburu, Oliverio Girondo, González Tuñón, Ricardo Güiraldes, Francisco López Merino, Leopoldo Marechal, Conrado Nalé Roxlo, Horacio Rega Molina, etc.)..... Read More about Antología de la poesía argentina moderna (1900-1925). Con notas biográficas y bibliográficas...

[Buenos Aires: n.d., ca. 1927]. Unpublished Borges Tribute to His Friend Ricardo Güiraldes. Tribute by Jorge Luis Borges for his friend Ricardo Güiraldes (1886-1927), fellow collaborator on the short lived but influential literary journals Martín Fierro and Proa, and author of the acclaimed novel Don Segundo Sombra (1926). It was..... Read More about Ricardo Güiraldes. Autograph manuscript essay, signed (“J.L.B.”

Buenos Aires: Coleccion Indice. M. Gleizer, 1928. First edition. El idioma de los argentinos was first presented as a talk in 1927 and collected here in book form with other essays. Borges never reprinted this book as the title essay formed part of a new book including Edmundo Clemente’s El..... Read More about El idioma de los argentinos

Buenos Aires: Ediciones Alfa, 1930. First edition, one of 1,000 copies (no. 266). Inscribed. Borges wrote the introductory essay (pp. 9-13) for this collection of the work of Pedro Figari. Inscribed by the author on the first blank, to Argentine art critic Romulado Brughetti: “Estimado Profesor, finalmente le envio al..... Read More about Figari. [At head of cover:] Nuevos Valores Plasticos de America

London: Watts & Co, [1932]. Abridged edition. The Thinker’s Library, No. 26. Signed by Borges, from His Library. Account of a visit to the Torres Straits in 1898, originally published by Methuen in 1901, here in a popular edition and with the ownership signature of Argentinian author Jorge Luis Borges..... Read More about Head-Hunters. Black, White, and Brown

Berkeley: The University of California Press, 1934. First edition. Early U.S. Translation of Borges. Includes two poems by Jorge Luis Borges from his first book Fervor de Buenos Aires (1923), Calle Desconocida (An Unknown Street) and La Guitarra (The Guitar). Very early English-language appearance of Borges, one of the earliest..... Read More about The Modernist Trend in Spanish-American Poetry. A Collection of Representative Poems of the...

Buenos Aires: 5 May 1935. One of three copies prepared for author, publisher, and Sigifrido Radaelli (named in the contract as arbitrator). Signed Contract for Historia Universal de la Infamia. Signed contract for one of the key books by Jorge Luis Borges, Historia Universal de la Infamia, a collection of..... Read More about Contrato de Edición del Libro Historia Universal de la Infamia. [Typescript Publishing contract,...

Buenos Aires: Editorial Sudamericana, [1940]. First edition. Borges’ translation of Faulkner’s novel The Wild Palms. Read More about Las Palmeras Salvajes [The Wild Palms]. Traduccion de Jorge Luis Borges

Buenos Aires: Editorial Sudamericana, [1941]. First edition. First edition of this anthology of Argentinian poetry. The prologue is by Borges (pp.. 7-11). Read More about Antología poética argentina

Buenos Aires: Sur, [1942]. First edition. Inscribed by Borges. “A Romualdo con la amistad de Jorge Luis Borges” Inscribed on the half title to Romualdo Brughetti (1912-2003), an Argentine art critic and early correspondent of Borges, and regular recipient of inscribed copies of Borges’ works. In the late 1930s, Brughetti..... Read More about Seis Problemas para Don Isidor Parodi. Palabra liminar de Gervasio Montenegro

Buenos Aires: Editorial Losada, [1943]. First edition. Borges’ Poetry, Inscribed. Inscribed on the half title, “Para Brughetti, cordialmente, Jorge Luis Borges” Romualdo Brughetti (1912-2003) was an Argentine art critic and correspondent of Borges, and regular recipient of inscribed copies of Borges’ works. In the late 1930s, Brughetti made a study..... Read More about Poemas 1923-1943

Buenos Aires: Editorial Losada, [1943]. First edition. Borges’ Collected Poetry. Read More about Poemas 1923-1943